Academic Articles & Research Papers

Archaeologies of Ontology

Bruno Latour and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro provided the initial impetus for explicitly ontological research in archaeology. Their impact on archaeologists, however, has been quite different. What I call the “metaphysical archaeologists” tr...

Archaeology and Modernity

This is the first book-length study to explore the relationship between archaeology and modern thought, showing how philosophical ideas that developed in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries still dominate our approach to the material re...

Earth Sciences and Archaeology

An archaeology of capitalism

Capitalism has been the focus of a great deal of social thinking and activity since the 18th-century. Understanding capitalism as both an economic and a cultural phenomenon has shed light on its inner workings as a system as well as guided ...

The Languages of Archaeology

The Archaeology of Ethnicity

The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. Indigenous and nationalist claims to territory, often rely on reconstructions of the past based on the traditional identification of 'cultures' from archaeologic...

Virtual Reality in Archaeology

This volume is an accompanying volume to CAA 98 volume (BAR S757). The papers were originally presented at the Festival of Virtual Reality in Archaeology which took place simultaneously to the twenty-sixth annual CAA conference in Barcelona...

The archaeology of place

The Archaeology of Personhood

Bringing together a wealth of research in social and cultural anthropology, philosophy and related fields, this is the first book to address the contribution that an understanding of personhood can make to our interpretations of the past Ap...

Demographic Archaeology

Archaeology and the Senses

This book is an exciting new look at how archaeology has dealt with the bodily senses and offers an argument for how the discipline can offer a richer glimpse into the human sensory experience. Yannis Hamilakis shows how, despite its intens...

Anthropology and Archaeology

Anthropolgy and Archaeology provides a valuable and much-needed introduction to the theories and methods of these two inter-related subjects. This volume covers the historical relationship and contemporary interests of archaeology and anthr...

Archaeology of Knowledge

In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great ...

ORGANIC RESIDUE ANALYSIS IN ARCHAEOLOGY: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL BIOMARKER REVOLUTION*

Organic residue analysis utilizes analytical organic chemical techniques to identify the nature and origins of organic remains that cannot be characterized using traditional techniques of archaeological investigation (because they are eithe...

Grand challenges for archaeology

Archaeology is a source of essential data regarding the fundamental nature of human societies. Researchers across the behavioral and social sciences use archeological data in framing foundational arguments. Archaeological evidence frequentl...

A Companion to archaeology

Bintliff, John, ed., A Companion to Archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. word archaeology conjures up images of people in pith helmets digging into the sandy earth of the desert or monumental buildings rising above jungle foliag...

Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique

In recent years, postcolonial theories have emerged as one of the significant paradigms of contemporary academia, affecting disciplines throughout the humanities and social sciences. These theories address the complex processes if coloniali...

Archaeology: The Key Concepts

From two of the best-known archaeological writers in the trade, this outstanding resource provides a thorough survey of the key ideas in archaeology, and how they impact on archaeological thinking and method. Clearly written, and easy to fo...

The archaeological process

List of Illustrations. Preface: Digging Outside the Shelter. Acknowledgements. 1. Crises in Global Archaeology. 2. Archaeology - Bridging Humanity and Science. 3. How do Archaeologists Reason?. 4. Interpreting Material Culture. 5. Towards a...

Spatial Technology and Archaeology: The Archaeological Applications of GIS

Archaeology, Space and GIS. The Spatial database. Acquiring and Integrating Data. Manipulating Spatial Data. Digital Elevation Models. Beginning to Quantify Spatial Patterns. Sites, Territories and Distance. Location Models and Prediction. ...